The 31-year-old garnered a $50,000 “Performance of the Night” award
for his second-round knockout of Josh Emmett
in Saturday’s main event at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. “Lil
Heathen” dropped his foe with a counter left hand and eventually
sealed with victory with a pair of vicious elbows on the mat at the
1:35 mark of round two.

Meanwhile, Ilir Latifi
earned the evening’s other $50,000 “Performance of the Night”
paycheck for his first-round submission of Ovince St.
Preux in a featured light heavyweight scrap. A left hook from
the Swede sent St. Preux to the canvas and when “OSP” returned to
his feet, Latifi rocked him with another left before securing the
fight-ending guillotine choke. St. Preux went unconscious 3:48 into
round one.

Elsewhere, Alan Jouban
and Ben
Saunders received “Fight of the Night” honors and $50,000
apiece for their entertaining preliminary welterweight scrap. While
Saunders kept the pressure on his opponent for most of the bout, it
was Jouban who landed the fight’s most decisive blows. The Black
House representative put an end to the contest when he made
Saunders stumble with an inside leg kick before knockout his foe
out cold with a follow-up straight left at the 2:38 mark of round
two.